....to the shores of Tripoli:
The Islamic State has released dramatic propaganda images showing Libyan fighters loyal to the group parading through the streets of Sirte, Libya earlier this week.
Two days after Egypt launched its first publicly acknowledged air strikes on what Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi claimed were weapons depots and Islamic State training camps, militants claiming loyalty to ISIS tore through the streets of the coastal city of Sirte in a public show of strength.
Men in camouflage gear and balaclavas waved Islamic State flags and drove what appeared to be brand new Toyotas.
"Oh, what a feeling"....?
Actually, being on the winning "team" is a tremendous feeling. The heady rush of success, the empowering confidence, arrogance, of that seemingly unstoppable momentum, the absolute certainty that your enemies haven't a prayer of stopping you, that you will drive them before you to their doom. Rather like James Cameron put it when he won his Best Picture Oscar for Titanic: "I'm king of the world!"
Except he was being figurative, even if he does have that big an ego. ISIS is quite matter-of-factly literal about it. And, so far, nobody has been able to stop them. But more to the point, those that can stop them have proven utterly unwilling to do so. And every non-ISIS jihadist group can see it, which is they they are all unifying under the Islamic State banner.
I'm not sure what the significance of all the shiny, new Toyota pickups is, but the column's direction is pretty clear: west, towards the Libyan capital of Tripoli. And then? On to Italy, Europe, and the "Land of the Cross". Which, in reality, is more the land of the Islamicizing soulless, a job ISIS will finish when they get there, along with the lives of every "infidel" on the Continent.
Exit question: Do these recent developments not cast the Obama Regime's abandonment of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in an even more "interesting" light?
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